Alain de Botton Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Insomnia, Injury

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2012

• We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Thinking, Suffering

  Alain De Botton (1997). “How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel”, Pantheon

• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

• It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.15, Penguin UK

• Must being in love always mean being in pain?

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Mean, Being In Love

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Philosophy

  Alain de Botton (2001). “The Consolations of Philosophy”, p.188, Penguin UK

• In the gap between who we wish one day to be
  and who we are at present,
  must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Envy, Anxiety

  Alain de Botton (2001). “The Consolations of Philosophy”, p.202, Penguin UK

• Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

  Alain de Botton

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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